Video of the fall.Jerry_B said:Trooper, motorist: Mysterious object fell from sky
LITCHFIELD, Conn. (AP) — Authorities in northwestern Connecticut say they didn't find anything after a state trooper and another person reported a large object falling out of the sky in Litchfield.
The Republican-American of Waterbury reports (http://bit.ly/HEwTYZ ) that a person driving in Litchfield at about 2 a.m. Tuesday reported that a green, glowing object the size of a whale fell from the sky and crashed into Bantam Lake.
gncxx said:One of my favourites was the rain of packets of biscuits. It didn't even sound natural!
Not only mass, but volume and surface area also have to be considered. I'm pretty sure several industrial sorting processes work on similar principles, but I'm too tired to dig up examples! (I expect James Dyson could provide data!)PeteByrdie said:If the putative whirlwinds separate the objects according to mass before depositing them, a stratified selections of objects would be found in their wake.
I've probably spent more time at sea than most people here, but sea spouts are not common. The nearest one I saw, in 1968, was several miles away. I might have seen a whale at that distance, but not the sort of small fry that end up as fish falls!Who ever reports seeing fish sucked into a vortex at sea, anyway?
gncxx said:Just looked it up: in 1965 in Louisville, Kentucky a man discovered his back yard and garage roof were sprinkled with bags of cookies. They'd apparently fallen from nowhere with no explanation. Weird, huh?
rynner2 said:Not only mass, but volume and surface area also have to be considered. I'm pretty sure several industrial sorting processes work on similar principles, but I'm too tired to dig up examples! (I expect James Dyson could provide data!)PeteByrdie said:If the putative whirlwinds separate the objects according to mass before depositing them, a stratified selections of objects would be found in their wake.
rynner2 said:I've probably spent more time at sea than most people here, but sea spouts are not common. The nearest one I saw, in 1968, was several miles away. I might have seen a whale at that distance, but not the sort of small fry that end up as fish falls!Who ever reports seeing fish sucked into a vortex at sea, anyway?
Was it pork? Or...some other 'meat'? :skull:
It's just as much a mystery as how it got there.Was it pork? Or...some other 'meat'? :skull:
I have a very strange one like this from a few years ago although it wasn't related to anything that was happening at the time. I was cycling along a street in Edinburgh when there was a SPLAT and a pigeon wing fell on to the road. Nothing else. No loose feathers, nothing. Just the wing.We didn't run into the bird - I know they can be stupid and we have run over quite a few in our time. This literally fell out of the sky
Ah yes, we often walk the mutt through some woods that are where they raise golden pheasants for a shoot. Red kites have reappeared round here recently but we have always had a lot of owls. Most evenings we walk through there, there will be similar little flurries of (usually pigeon) feathers, on the track through the woods but no pigeons. Just once, last year, we saw a solitary bird leg lying by the track just before the woods. Once in the woods, were two distraught middle aged walkers. I don't think they were locals, judging by the accents. I wondered why they were upset. "We just found this baby pheasant and it's running round all distraught, on its own."I have a very strange one like this from a few years ago although it wasn't related to anything that was happening at the time. I was cycling along a street in Edinburgh when there was a SPLAT and a pigeon wing fell on to the road. Nothing else. No loose feathers, nothing. Just the wing.
There is clearly something weird going on up there with pigeons. I am minded of Conan Doyle's The Horror of the Heights.
Eek yes, I see what you mean. :nails:Just remembered - many many years ago I caught the end of some discussion on Radio 4, this woman asking what she had seen two owl legs, still upright, in a hollowed out bit of a tree. Just the legs, mind, no owl. That image has always kind of haunted me.
I had an unnerving experience one sunny afternoon last year when walking my dog, a Bloody squirrel tail landed in front of us.Eek yes, I see what you mean. :nails:
I'm thinking 'birds of prey'. Maybe carving up their prey mid-flight.
The Meat Shower, 1876
This old story was new to me! Nowadays we could have used DNA analysis to get more information. I wonder if any samples were preserved?
That Time it Rained Flesh in Kentucky
1876, was a beautiful day in Bath County, Kentucky, and a local farmer’s wife, Mrs. Crouch, was outside making soap.
“When the flesh began to fall I saw a large piece strike the ground close by me, with a snapping-like noise when it struck,” Crouch said. “The largest piece that I saw was as long as my hand and about half an inch wide. It looked gristly, as if it had been torn from the throat of some animal. Another piece that I saw was half round in shape and about the size of a half dollar."
Others took it upon themselves to taste it, and two men said it was “either mutton or venison.” A local butcher who tried a piece “declared that it tasted neither like flesh, fish or fowl. It looked to him like mutton, but the smell was a new one.”
With no one able to identify the meat by sight or taste, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat reported, “a great deal of the flesh was sent to chemists and others in various parts of the country, and analyses were made by several well-known scientists.”
Whatever the meat was and wherever it came from, you can see a bit of it for yourself. The Monroe Moosnick Medical and Science Museum at Transylvania University in Lexington has a preserved piece of meat from the shower in its collection.
I do realize that I am answering a 14 year old question, but I just came across this one, and apparently there are samples:
Source: http://mentalfloss.com/article/59487/time-it-rained-flesh-kentucky
How bizzare, I just heard about this one today, on the Lore podcast. There is a theory that it was a vultures regurgitated meal.